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Re: MS Office97 only $45

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From: Jay
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 00:00
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Thanks for the quick judgement there buddy...but I've seen illegal +ACI-sealed+ACI-
copies of software bouncing around...I'm just questioning it because the
person selling the items have 8 copies (it's not like they bought one and
then changed their mind)  this is below cost and could easily sell for much
more if they were legit so warning flags go up for me)

As for the +ACI-Easy Fulfillment+ACI- or your claims of illegal copies I don't care
what this person or yourself titles it.  I just reminding those that believe
everything they read on the internet that if it is too good to be true then
it probably is illegal.  If I miss-out on a great legit deal then so be it.
I'd rather miss-out than be on microsoft's hit list.

Oh yeah, and if your too afraid to put your real email address and not
bounce it off the local university servers and then to a hotmail account
then maybe your comments just are not all that important to me.  (And
probably not respected by others either.)


Observer wrote in message +ADw-3651DFDA.A0AE8468+AEA-hotmail.com+AD4-...
+AD4-Well, another idiot has added his two cents without knowing what he's
talking
+AD4-about. The guy in the newpaper article was NOT selling +ACI-Easy Fulfillment+ACI-,
he
+AD4-was actually making illegal copies of Office 97. Jay wrote:
+AD4-
+AD4APg- this post reminds me of this response I saw earlier (copied below):
+AD4APg-
+AD4APg- --- Previous Message Posted Earlier ---
+AD4APg-
+AD4APg- I'm sure every one in this newsgroup (triangle.forsale) is aware of Gary
+AD4APg- Brooks (flash+AEA-wizvax.net, et al.)...this guy CHUBAK is hawking the same
+AD4APg- crap.
+AD4APg- Do the software industry a favor and DON'T buy from him.
+AD4APg-
+AD4APg- In article +ADw-72569f+ACQ-sd2+ACQ-1+AEA-nnrp1.dejanews.com+AD4-,
+AD4APg-   mav5+AEA-my-dejanews.com wrote:
+AD4APg- +AD4- FOR SALE:
+AD4APg- +AD4-
+AD4APg- +AD4- BRAND NEW, SEALED
+AD4APg- +AD4- Microsoft Office 97 Professional on CD-ROM (Full Version)
+AD4APg- +AD4- Online registration, online manual, and CD-KEY.
+AD4APg- +AD4- In article +ADw-72569f+ACQ-sd2+ACQ-1+AEA-nnrp1.dejanews.com+AD4-,
+AD4APg-   mav5+AEA-my-dejanews.com wrote:
+AD4APg- +AD4- FOR SALE:
+AD4APg- +AD4-
+AD4APg- +AD4- BRAND NEW, SEALED
+AD4APg- +AD4- Microsoft Office 97 Professional on CD-ROM (Full Version)
+AD4APg- +AD4- Online registration, online manual, and CD-KEY.
+AD4APg-
+AD4APg- Don't buy from this guy, it's PIRATED product...do a power search on
+AD4APg- dejanews.com on the author name of mav5+AEA-bright.net
+AD4APg-
+AD4APg- You'll see the guy's selling EASY FULFILLMENT product - only legal to
those
+AD4APg- who already possess a Microsoft site license.
+AD4APg-
+AD4APg- Here's a newspaper article from the Albany, NY Times-Union about GARY
+AD4APg- BROOKS,
+AD4APg- a person who also sold Microsoft Easy Fulfillment product:
+AD4APg-
+AD4APg- Section: CAPITAL REGION
+AD4APg- Page: B4
+AD4APg-
+AD4APg- Tuesday, August 18, 1998
+AD4APg-
+AD4APg- MAN CHARGED WITH SELLING BOOTLEG MICROSOFT SOFTWARE
+AD4APg- MIKE FRICANO Staff writer
+AD4APg-
+AD4APg-      Troy A city resident has been charged with selling bootleg copies of
+AD4APg- computer software.
+AD4APg-
+AD4APg-      Gary Brooks, 43, of 41 114th St., allegedly advertised and sold
+AD4APg- illegally
+AD4APg- copied Microsoft products on the Internet, police said. When they
searched
+AD4APg- his
+AD4APg- home they found more than 100 copies of Microsoft Office 97, which
retails
+AD4APg- for
+AD4APg- between +ACQ-300-+ACQ-400 but which Brooks sold for +ACQ-35, said Troy Police Capt.
Jack
+AD4APg- Mahar.
+AD4APg-
+AD4APg-      Brooks was charged Aug. 11 with second-degree trademark
counterfeiting,
+AD4APg- unlawful duplication of computer-related materials and criminal
possession
+AD4APg- of
+AD4APg- computer-related materials, police said.
+AD4APg-
+AD4APg-      Police said they are trying to determine whether Brooks was part of
a
+AD4APg- larger network of computer software piraters.
+AD4APg-
+AD4APg-   Troy police became involved in the case after receiving a call from a
New
+AD4APg- York City detective agency, hired by Microsoft to monitor software
+AD4APg- bootleggers, Mahar said. A search warrant was then obtained and Brooks
was
+AD4APg- arrested, Mahar said.
+AD4APg-
+AD4APg-      The penalty for a conviction on each charge is 1 to 3 years
+AD4APg- imprisonment.
+AD4APg- Brooks remains free pending further legal action, police said.
+AD4APg-
+AD4APg- -----------+AD0APQ- Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network +AD0APQ-----------
+AD4APg- http://www.dejanews.com/       Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
+AD4APg- Hello wrote in message +ADw-72qd8h+ACQ-qqp+ACQ-1+AEA-news-2.news.gte.net+AD4-...
+AD4APg- +AD4-BRAND NEW, SEALED
+AD4APg- +AD4-Microsoft Office 97 Professional on CD-ROM (Full Version)
+AD4APg- +AD4-Online registration, online manual, and CD-KEY.
+AD4APg- +AD4-
+AD4APg- +AD4-Selling for +ACQ-45
+AD4APg- +AD4-
+AD4APg- +AD4-If interested email me at noel70+AEA-gte.net
+AD4APg- +AD4-I have 8 copies left
+AD4APg- +AD4-
+AD4APg- +AD4-
+AD4-
+AD4-
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From: "Jay" <jay@swift-web.com>
Subject: Re: MS Office97  only $45
Date: 1998/11/18
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